"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief." Khalil Gibran.
Pain according to a dictionary is the condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude. Pain is any discomfort both in the body and in the mind, it is not the absence of pleasure but the derangement of functions leading to a moment of great depression, suffering and gnashing of teeth, these are the fruit of ones attachment to the desires for pleasure and it is the pain that cures the suffering.
Ordinarily, during times of suffering, we try to forget pain. If a man is troubled, he will drink alcohol or shoot some drugs to elevate the mind above the pain. A lady in pain may sit with movies or surf through the internet to distract her from the pain. Somebody is miserable and he will try to forget his misery with prayers and devotional songs, the most severe strategy for drowning the pain as been suicide.
These are all different ways and means to forget pain, a thousands and more strategies like these can be used to drown pain, all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can’t stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain. Little do we remember that the light is in the darkness and the darkness is in the Light, acceptance of the darkness is what reveals the light, the cure for the pain is in the pain.
There is a great lesson to learn in the pain, its in the pain we find the key to life. We tend to lose ourself trying to drown or forget it instead of being aware of it and embracing it. When you become fully aware of your suffering, when you pinpoint its location and look at it face to face, not escaping the pain, you will have a glimpse of your separateness from it, then you will be able to communicate with it and listen to the lesson it wants to pass. This pain we feel are messangers listen to them. Grief can be the garden where compassion grows. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love, peace and wisdom.
